Re: [PATCH 4/6] docs: downloads: Change sources link for libvirt-ocaml

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On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 06:12:33AM -0400, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 10:36:56AM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
> > The sources for new libvirt-ocaml releases are hosted via gitlab. Add
> > the link. Since old releases are not present there preserve also the old
> > link.
> ...
> >    * - OCaml
> > -    - `libvirt <https://download.libvirt.org/ocaml/>`__
> > +    - `gitlab <https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt-ocaml/-/tags>`__
> > +      `libvirt (old versions) <https://download.libvirt.org/ocaml/>`__
> 
> Is the fact that no tarballs have been uploaded for the last few
> releases intentional, or an oversight?
> 
> While I see tags for those releases in GitLab, in general git tags
> are not a replacement for proper release tarballs, which I'm not
> seeing anywhere on GitLab.

Indeed, as was seen recently with github, the auto-generated tarballs
can change when the backend impl changes, which invalidate any hashes
vendors are using to validate tarballs. It is unwise to rely on the
auto-generated tarballs as the canonical release artifacts

> 
> The Fedora package still points to the libvirt.org server too[1], so
> to me it appears that a few uploads were simply missed.
> 
> Rich?
> 
> 
> [1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/ocaml-libvirt/c/2559c77a711c7d82aef5110e4dada3adf653444c
> -- 
> Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization
> 

With regards,
Daniel
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